Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee will provide nutritious lunches as part of the new “Meet and Eat” program from noon to 2 p.m. on certain Wednesdays at Mary Collins Community Center. The lunches will be held on Wednesdays, July 16 and 30, and September 10 and 24. The event also provides seniors an opportunity to socialize and make new friends. Space is limited and free transportation is available to Miami Lakes...

Registration for Miami Lakes Optimist Fall baseball season is scheduled for 9 a.m. on consecutive Saturdays, August 9, 16, and 23, at Miami Lakes Optimist Park. Kids can also registrater online at www. miamilakesoptimist.org.  Players must bring copies of their birth certificates and be fitted for their uniforms. Before the start of the regular season in September, players will tryout for teams and subsequently be drafted. For more...

  The Little Patriots Preschool was not supposed to be American High School’s “best kept secret,” but it was so clandestine that it flew under the radar for 12 years. The early Childhood Education or ECE program at the school is among 12 centers in Miami-Dade Public Schools that allow high-school students who are seeking careers in child care, childhood development, teaching and psychology, to get a head start by...

  School doesn’t start until Monday, August 18, but the freshmen class at Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School will get a little taste of high school life two weeks early. On Tuesday, August 5, Hialeah Miami Lakes will have its annual freshmen orientation in the school auditorium at 4 p.m.  All students and parents are encouraged to attend this event. You will have the opportunity to meet and greet teachers, administrators...

Miami-Dade Public Schools’ Office of Economic Opportunity, in partnership with the Town of Miami Lakes, is hosting a workshop on How to do Business with Miami-Dade Public Schools, at 5 p.m., on Wednesday, July 23, at the Mary Collins Community Center, 15151 N.W. 82 Avenue. Miami-Dade Schools officials including Chief Facilities officer Jaime Torrens, Economic Development officer Brain A. Williams and Chief Procurement officer Melody...